El nuevo valor de la técnica en el Renacimiento: Los tratados y la filosofía natural
Resumen
Technique as a new value in the Renaissance: the treatises and natural philosophy.
Since the Middle Ages and especially the Renaissance, the technique acquires a new cultural value and begins to be seen as a means to achieve control over nature and acquire material progress. Various fields in the production and daily work incorporated the use of new technical devices, and this entailed an increase in the construction of such artifacts. These changes had an impact on everyday life and had also an echo in the learned culture. This paper addresses two issues related to the new cultural value of techniques in the Renaissance: the publication of treatises devoted to technical matters, and the incorporation of the technical to the natural philosophy of that time. At the end of the paper I expose the more relevant aspects that derive from these processes.
Key words: History of techniques, Renaissance, treatises on machines, visual representation of artifacts, natural philosophy, Francis Bacon.
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